PUBLISHED FOR TIIE ASSOCIATION BY 1869. 260.9.64. PREFACE. TAE ADVANCED READER, comprising Lessons in Literature and Science, is a sequel to PROGRESSIVE LESSONS, and will be found suitable as a highest English Class - Book for Academies as well as for Burgh and Parish Schools. The Scientific part has been prepared with care and research, and detailed in a manner meant to be at once interesting, clear, and precise; each subject taken up being treated in an accurate and exhaustive manner, and the best and most recent authorities having in every case been consulted. Diagrams, which are but the most comprehensive and forcible of words, are copiously given as the best mode of explanation. Though order and method are strictly observed, the Scientific and Literary Lessons are intermingled, so as to present an attractive variety to the pupil. In the Literary Pieces, useful information and interesting detail have been the principles of selection. To teach the great knowledge of the True, the Beautiful, and the Good, by the assistance of the Master Minds of England, was considered an indispensable requisite here; and it is hoped that the Extracts in Poetry and Prose will be found, as far as the combination was possible, suitable reading for the young, and good specimens of the literature of our native land. Modulation and Inflection receive special attention, for the world at large is becoming sensitive on the subject of good reading, and justly insists on this accomplishment as the primary element in any claim to scholarship, Objects and Divisions of Natural Gold, History, . . . . . 10 Mercury, - Importance of Plants, • . • 81 | Reproductive Organs of Plants Nutritive Organs of Plants, . . 85 Preservation and Dispersion of Variety and Classification of Ani | The Frame-work of the Human mals, • • • • 129 Body-The Limbs, • • 168 The Humbler Forms of Animal Life, 132 The Muscles, . . . Insects, - . - - - - 134 The Nervous Centres and the Structure of Vertebrate Animals, - 150 Nerves, . . The Covering of Animals, - - 152 Sensation-The Eye, . - 155 Properties of Matter, . . . 218 Centrifugal and Centripetal Force, 254 Properties of Matter-Continued, 220 Machines and their Use3, - - 273 Nature and Effects of Force, - - 223 The Lever, . . - - 276 The Various kinds of Force,- - 225 The Whcel and Axle, - - 278 The Laws of Motion, - - - 245 The Pulley, - - - - - 282 Motion Produoed or Modined by The Inclined Plane, Wedge, and Gravity, - - - - • 218 Screw, . . . . . - 284 Centre of Gravity, - - - - 251 Conclusion on Machinery, - • 256 TIIE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF GASES. Air, . . . . . . . 322 | The Air-Pump, . Nature, Velocity, and Diffusion of Refraction of Light, Light, • - - - 365 Colours-The Rainbow, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. - 173 EDUCATION AND RHETORICAL EXTRACTS. - 1 Advantages of Studying Latin and Music as a branch of Education, · 67 Speech of Cicero against Cati- Lord Chatham on the American The Hand, - - - - - 269 |